"My job is not to repeat something that someone else has done," Craig informed ET host Mary Hart. "I love Bond, and we all grew up with it, and it's very precious to me, so I'm trying to look after it -- and I'm trying to take it somewhere else so that, with or without me, it lasts another how many years. That's the deal here."

Craig also discounted the notion that the new film is a remake. "The Casino Royale that was made [in '67] was a comedy," he said, adding, "It was based upon the book, but actually had very little to do with the book. It had about 10 directors, I think, and 10 writers and 10 James Bonds, and it's nothing to do with this. This [movie we're doing now] is Ian Fleming's Casino Royale. It's very close to the book."

Daniel Craig takes aim as the new 007; click the pic for a gallery of photos from Casino Royale.

In other Casino Royale news, MI6 points out an article in The Sunday Express about the film. It is a report from Karlovy Vary, a spa town in the Czech Republic that is doubling for Montenegro in the movie. The Grandhotel Pupp is serving as the Hotel Splendide Montenegro where the titular casino is located. The Daily Mirror also has a brief eyewitness account of Daniel Craig filming a scene there.

CommanderBond.net has located a batch of new spy pics of Craig, dressed in formal wear as 007, filming scenes outside the Hotel Splendide. Click here for links to the photos.